Bed-pan.



No. 727,949. v PATBNTED MAY 12, 1903.

L. M. HOFFMAN.

BED PAN.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 7, 1902.

NO MODEL.

NTTED STATES Patented May 12, 1905i.

PATENT Unsinn.

BED-PAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 727,949,l dated May 12, 1903.

Application led January 7, 1902. Serial No. 88,759. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be itknown that I, LENA M. HOFFMAN, acitizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bed-Pans, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a bed-pan which may be heated or cooled according to require.

ments, and is provided with a cover for preventing escape ot' odors and which may be removed in order to empty, clean, and disinfect the pan, it being also adapted to elec-A a view of an electrode that is adapted to be connected with the pan. Fig. 5 represents an end view of a portion.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a bed-pan, which consists of the body B, the lid C, and the removable top C, in which said lid is iitted. On the upper end of the body is the cross-bar D, and on the ladjacent portion of the top C is the open ear E, which may be hooked under said bar and form a hinge for said lid, While by raising the top and manipulating the same so that the ear may be withdrawn from under the cross-bar D the members of the hinge are separated and the top may be removed from the body when so required for purposes of full access.

to the interior of the latter. When the pan is to be used, the lid C is removed and the flanged wall of the cover of the top C' constitutes the seat. When the use is accomplished, the lid is restored in position, its depending flange engaging with the ange of the opening in said top or cover C', thus completely Fig. 2

In one end of the body B-in the present case the lower endthere is a socket F, the same being adapted to guide an electrode G into the socket H in the depending rim or flange J of the top C', so that the occupant of the pan may be electrically treated when so desired. In this case the patient grasps the handle of the other electrode, both electrodes leading from asource of electrical supply, thus forming the current.

The body may be made of metal or other material, enameled or otherwise coated, and may receive hot water, steam, or other heating medium, or the electrode may be incommunication with a heating device within the pan, or the pan may receive ice or other cooling medium, so that in either case the patient may have hot or cold treatment, according to requirements.

The lid C is dat and conforms tothe shape ofthe top C', so as to avoid material projection of Ythe parts, Vand the'handle K of said lid when not in use occupies the recess L, so

as to be sunken and placed out of the way.

`the-pan it will cool or heat the lid and top,

and the patient may be seated or rested on the pan, and so be subjected to thev cold or hot treatment while contacting with a dat surface and without any projecting parts.

f Having thusdescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isf l. A bed-pan consisting of a body, a removable cover having an open seat' thereon, a removable lid on said seat adapted to cover the opening therein and having a socket thereon, a detachable hinge connection between the cover and bod5T for looking the cover to the body, a socket on Jche body and a, removable electrode to engage said sockets.

2. A bed-pau consisting of a body, a removable cover having an open seat; thereon, a removable lid on said seal', adapted to cover the openingY therein, a detachable hinge connection between the cover and body for locking the cover to the body, a, socket in the body at the end opposite the hinge, and a remov- 1o able electrode to engage said socket'. to lock and support the end of the cover.

LENA M. HOFFMAN. Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, C. D. MCVAY. 

